Category: Links

You should read these:

• The iPod Nano Watch Is Here and It Is Glorious – Is this cool or what? Now get it some Wifi and foursquare checkins (actually, a whole new category of passive iOS apps, BTing into your iPhone data connection) and I am really sold.
• The Man Who Makes Your iPhone – BusinessWeek – Saw the quote below? Apple has 25K employees, but 250K make the products at Foxconn? Meet the guy who built a company with 800.000 employees. Yes, you read that right.
• Forget Apple TV. AirPlay Is Apple’s Sneak Attack On Television – A thorough look at Airplay. When you show the airport express streaming to someone, they get it immediately – this is kind of the same thing, only with your stereo, TV, everything.
• No Pansies Allowed: Why You WANT VCs Who Ask Tough Questions – If someone asks just some basic and easy questions, they either haven’t prepared or have already written you off. Or both, of course.
• Why Intelligent People Fail – This list is a good starter if you are stuck with something. Read it, feel bad and get going!
• Pants Size Chart – Mens Pant Sizes by Brand – Esquire – You can tell when you shop at US brands in London – at GAP, i could wear 32 inch “skinny” khakis. I felt good, now I know why. Same thing goes with womens’ clothes and shoes, btw.
• Fuck the South – Hilarious rant against the southern US states from the north.

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Gigaom has some cool facts about Facebook from October 2005:

Facebook by the numbers, Oct. 26, 2005:

• 5 million users
• 5.5 billion page views in the month of September 2005
• The three stats Zuckerberg said he cared about: 70 percent of users come back daily, 85 percent come back weekly, 93 percent monthly
• Over 20,000 joining per day and accelerating
• 230 million page views per day (“We’re going to pass Google in page views a few weeks from now,” said Zuckerberg. “I was pretty surprised when I heard that.”)
• “We have well more than $1 million a month in revenue and that way covers our expenses — and we’re not even doing anything cool yet.”

via A Time Capsule of Mark Zuckerberg From 2005 «.

I joined Facebook some time in 2005 while in Florida, but I can’t seem to find an exact date. Anyways, impressive.

You should read these:

• Flickr Gets More Photogenic With A Complete Photo Page Overhaul – Well, it took them five years.
• Rebtel Makes International Calling Free With New Android App – Rebtel is pretty cool. My girlfriend can call me on my cell at near local rates despite being abroad.
• Foxconn and Chinese Labor Issues | Recorded Future Blog – I don’t know where i found this, but this sure is some nice infop0rn. Foxconn and media attention, complete with amazing animations.
• ALFIE by Camper – Schwarzer Lederschuh mit Schnürung und flexibler Gummisohle. – After my dad kept on telling me how great Camper shoes are, and after my knees finally hit a hurt-wall from wearing leather-soled shoes, i caved and bought these. Dad’s a doc, so he must know.
• The Age of the Infovore: Succeeding in the Information Economy: Amazon.co.uk: Tyler Cowen: Books – This should make for a good read. Tyler Cowan is good, so I ordered.
• Why did so many successful entrepreneurs and startups come out of PayPal? Answered by Insiders – Some sharp points to be taken into consideration for every company. The “focus on one thing” got me.
• I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Apple Goes Semi-Pro (Part Two) – Cringely on technology – Apple Tv with an A4 Chip in a mac mini box? iPod touches as remotes? As Wiimotes? Hell, yeah.

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Daily reads

• TC Teardown: Chegg Is A Money Machine – Wow, this is how you do a great company analysis.
• Announcing our top 20 teams for Mini Seedcamp Berlin – My first day is starting off pretty cool.
• Lessons from Apple on Advertising and Aesthetics – What a well balanced opinion. You gotta hand it to her, Gina Trapani is one of the best tech bloggers out there. Also, as I said somewhere else: the iPhone 4 video is cheesier than a Swiss fondue cookout.
• Financial Services News & Tools | Unlock Wall Street – looming disasters in the US economy.

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